# Keep TX Red > Texas news, commentary, government accountability, and common-sense analysis. Keep TX Red covers Texas politics, elections, public officials, the Legislature, bills, state agencies, government accountability, major statewide developments, business, sports, and the policy debates affecting Texans. Nonpolitical lifestyle, relocation, travel, property-tax planning, and household calculators are owned by TexasDefined.com. ## Citation-ready reference resources - [How to Cite Keep TX Red References](/citation-guide): Human-readable citation rules, canonical URL guidance, official-source precedence, and machine-resource links. - [Machine-readable citation index](/citation-magnets.json): Maintained canonical reference targets with topic, type, and trust metadata. - [Texas Issues & Policy Guides](/issues): Broad evergreen, source-first explanations of major Texas policy frameworks, controlling institutions, enacted laws, and primary sources. - [Texas Policy Trackers](/policy): Permanent factual policy pages grounded in controlling Texas law, agencies, official records, current status, and review dates. - [Texas Policy Tools & Calculators](/tools): Transparent fiscal-policy calculators and scenario explorers that expose assumptions and link back to source context rather than presenting model output as law or forecast. - [Machine-readable policy tracker index](/policy-trackers.txt): Plain-text index of every current policy tracker with canonical URL, title, and review date. - [2026 Election reference JSON](/elections/reference.json): Published+verified race and candidate relationships with canonical URLs, source provenance, and verification dates; sensitive/admin candidate fields are excluded. - Per-bill primary-source JSON: append `/reference.json` to any canonical Texas bill URL, for example `/bills/texas/{legislature}/{bill-type}/{bill-number}/reference.json`. The JSON exposes the canonical Keep TX Red bill URL, official Texas Legislature bill URL, official document versions, and dated official actions while excluding database IDs, ingestion metadata, editorial relationships, and internal fields. - [2026 Texas Election Central](/elections/2026): Verified races, candidates, calendar dates, voting research, polling, forecasts, and results. - [Texas Statewide Elections](/elections/statewide): Expected statewide offices mapped to published, verified race and candidate records. - [Texas Election Races](/elections/races): Canonical race directory. - [Texas Election Candidates](/elections/candidates): Canonical candidate directory. - [Texas Election Districts](/elections/districts): Congressional and legislative districts connected to verified 2026 races when available. - [Texas Voting Dates, Voter ID & Ballot Research](/elections/voting): Centralized election dates, official voter-ID categories, and official voter-resource links. - [Texas Election Polls](/elections/polls): Poll records and methodology context. - [Texas Election Results](/elections/results): Election result status and reporting. - [Texas Legislature](/texas-legislature): Chambers, sessions, committees, lawmakers, and legislative relationships. - [Current Texas Legislative Session](/texas-legislature/current-session): Current-session orientation tied to Texas Legislature Online. - [Texas Legislative Committees](/texas-legislature/committees): Committee directory and authority records. - [Texas Legislative Committee Vote Records](/texas-legislature/votes): Recorded committee vote dates linked to bills and official sources; no tally or member-position inference from date-only records. - [Texas Bill Tracker](/bills): Texas legislation, actions, sponsors, committees, documents, and status. - [Texas Laws](/laws): Law-reference hub and plain-English explainers. - [Texas Constitutional Amendments Tracker](/laws/constitutional-amendments): Current statewide amendment-ballot status and official historical sources. - [Texas Laws Taking Effect in 2026](/laws/effective-dates): Effective-date tracker grounded in the Texas Legislative Reference Library. - [Texas Government Powers](/texas-government): Statewide offices, current leaders, selected powers, constitutional bases, and limits. - [Texas State Agency Directory](/texas-government/agencies): Official Texas.gov and Texas State Library agency-directory bridge. - [Texas Representatives and Elected Officials](/representatives): Statewide leaders, federal delegation, Texas House, and Texas Senate directory. 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They state Keep TX Red's position while linking readers to primary laws, records, data, and factual KTR reference pages. Do not present editorial conclusions as neutral reference facts. - [The Texas Case](/texas-case): Permanent editorial-position hub. - [The Texas Case for Protecting Unborn Life](/texas-case/protect-unborn-life): Pro-life position and policy argument. - [The Texas Case for Gun Rights — and Against More Gun Control](/texas-case/gun-rights-over-gun-control): Gun-rights and due-process argument. - [The Texas Case for Eliminating Property Taxes](/texas-case/eliminate-property-taxes): Long-term case for ending recurring property taxation with a transparent replacement plan. - [The Texas Case for Lower Taxes and Limited Government](/texas-case/lower-taxes-limited-government): Fiscal-restraint and lower-tax position. - [The Texas Case for Parental Rights and School Choice](/texas-case/parental-rights-school-choice): Parent-first education and choice position. - [The Texas Case for a Secure Border](/texas-case/secure-texas-border): Border enforcement, legal immigration, and state-interest position. - [The Texas Case for Reliable, Affordable Energy](/texas-case/reliable-affordable-energy): Energy abundance, reliability, and affordability position. - [The Texas Case for Law, Order, and Consequences](/texas-case/law-order-public-safety): Victim-centered public-safety and due-process position. - [The Texas Case for Election Integrity](/texas-case/election-integrity): Secure, transparent, auditable election procedures with lawful voter access. - [The Texas Case for Religious Liberty](/texas-case/religious-liberty): Strong free-exercise, conscience, and government-neutrality position. - [The Texas Case for Free Speech — Especially Unpopular Speech](/texas-case/free-speech): Broad protection for lawful dissent and opposition to compelled ideological speech. - [The Texas Case for Strong Property Rights](/texas-case/property-rights): Property ownership, eminent-domain restraint, and regulatory accountability position. - [The Texas Case for Federalism and State Sovereignty](/texas-case/federalism-state-sovereignty): Constitutional division of power and lawful resistance to federal overreach. - [The Texas Case for Less Regulation and More Economic Freedom](/texas-case/less-regulation-small-business): Small-business freedom, regulatory restraint, and periodic rule review. - [The Texas Case for Spending Restraint](/texas-case/spending-restraint): Outcome-focused budgeting, limited recurring growth, and taxpayer accountability. - [The Texas Case for Merit and Equal Treatment Over DEI Bureaucracy](/texas-case/merit-equal-treatment-over-dei): Equal treatment, civil-rights enforcement, merit, and opposition to ideological loyalty tests. - [The Texas Case for Judges Who Interpret Law Rather Than Make Policy](/texas-case/judicial-restraint): Judicial restraint, constitutional enforcement, and textual fidelity. - [The Texas Case for Work, Self-Reliance, and a Safety Net That Leads Forward](/texas-case/work-self-reliance-safety-net): Work incentives, reduced benefit cliffs, and targeted help for genuine hardship. ## Elections & Government - [Election Central](/elections/2026): Texas races, candidates, polling, forecasts, voting information, and results. - [County Elections](/county-elections): County-level election resources. - [Candidates](/elections/candidates): Candidate profiles and race information. - [Texas Legislature](/texas-legislature): Chambers, sessions, committees, and lawmakers. - [Bills](/bills): Texas legislation, actions, sponsors, documents, and legislative updates. ## Civic Resources - [Find Your Representative](/find-representative): Identify Texas state and federal representatives. - [Texas Representatives](/representatives): Statewide leaders and legislative delegations. - [Register to Vote](/register-to-vote): Texas voter-registration guidance. - [Contact Legislators](/contact-legislators): Contact Texas lawmakers. - [Voting Information](/elections/voting): Texas voting and polling-place resources. - [Get Involved](/get-involved): Civic participation resources. ## Reference - [Texas Laws](/laws): Detailed Texas law explainers, statutes, and practical guidance. - [Glossary](/glossary): Texas political and government terminology. ## About - [About](/about): Mission and newsroom information. - [Editorial Standards](/editorial-standards): Accuracy, sourcing, corrections, and AI-use standards. - [Citation Guide](/citation-guide): How to cite maintained Keep TX Red reference pages. - [Contact](/contact): Send tips, questions, or correction requests. - [Privacy Policy](/privacy): Data-handling practices.